Tag: Looking
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‘The White Lotus’ Is Giving Murray Bartlett His Much Deserved Flowers
Since the halcyon days of Tom Selleck, has anyone worked a mustache quite like Murray Bartlett? The Australian actor, previously best known for playing Dom on Andrew Haigh’s shortlived gay drama “Looking,” is having a much-deserved mid-career breakout with “The White Lotus” — and not a moment too soon. Created by veteran writer/director Mike White,…
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‘The North Water’ Trailer: Colin Farrell & Jack O’Connell Star In Andrew Haigh’s Whaling Series
Andrew Haigh is one of the most respected English filmmakers working today because of the humane and tender qualities he lends his projects. Whether it’s his LGBT-themed dramas like “Weekend” and “Looking,” or the truly excellent “45 Years” from 2015, Haigh brings a subtle and tender style reminiscent of a novelist’s sensibility. Even his 2017…
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‘Looking for Venera’ Review: Blossoming Teen Spirit Breaks Free From Dead-End Tradition
Rites of passage, teenage girls in small towns, strict and uncomprehending parents: We know the drill, yet few films riffing on the subject get the mood and ambiguities as right as “Looking for Venera.” , ensuring the story is grounded in a particular place while making her protagonist a readily identifiable, highly sympathetic young woman.…
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‘The New Mutants’ Trailer Teases an X-Men Horror Movie
After two years of delays, 20th Century Fox released the trailer for the X-Men spinoff “The New Mutants.”Inspired by “The New Mutants” Marvel graphic novel published in 1982, director Josh Boone’s spinoff brings some horror into the X-Men universe. It opens on Blu Hunt’s (“The Originals”) Danielle Moonstar sitting in darkness when a voice asks…
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Andrew Haigh On ‘Lean On Pete,’ ‘The North Water’ And The State Of Gay Film [Podcast]
Somehow Andrew Haigh has become one of the most down low cinematic auteur working today. He’s directed and written three critically acclaimed films in a row and guided the legendary Charlotte Rampling to her first Academy Award nomination in just his second film, “45 Years.” And yet, he somehow hasn’t become the darling of the…